I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

13 Easy Kid’s Christmas Crafts

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A teacher friend of mine was telling me she did one of the kid’s Christmas crafts I posted about last year and was asking if I had anything new up my sleeve for this year. I’ve posted a few newbies to add to my kid-friendly craft list, so I thought I’d round them all up so you can have them in one handy dandy post. They can be done with varying degrees of adult supervision {some require glue guns, so use caution! I’m talking to you adults who have burned their fingers so many times they’re scarred for life. Not that I personally know anything about that from previous experience or anything!}, but all were created with kids in mind. Here are 13 fun crafts to choose from:

Christmas Quick Christmas Craft – Reindeer Ornaments: These reindeer ornaments are made out of wine corks {which if you live in suburbia, a quick knock on a handful of doors will yield you enough corks to decorate an entire tree} are easy to make and look cute on the tree or as an embellishment to your Christmas present wrapping.

Easy Kids Christmas Crafts — Button Snowman Family: You can have your littles create your entire family as represented by snowmen using old buttons you have lying around. They can give each snowman their own personality until they have crafted your entire snowman family.

Homemade Rudolph Christmas Ornament: You’ll notice a lot of these crafts are ornaments! I love ornaments that have been handmade by kids. I still have almost all the ones my kids made growing up. Seeing them brings back some fun memories of when they were young. So here’s another cute one for ya!

Bird Seed Ornaments: I love these little ornaments. They are a great way to decorate the bare winter branches outdoors, and the kiddos will love the fact that the birds are there because of them. {Pin it for later}Candy Cane Reindeer: This craft is a great way to get rid of leftover yarn and is pretty easy for little fingers. The whole project will only take you about 10 minutes–now that is my kind of commitment. {Pin it for later}Potato Stamp Wrapping Paper: Such a fun craft to do with the kids that you can actually use! They will have a blast “playing with their food” while making the potato stamped wrapping paper, and you can use their creations to wrap gifts. {Pin it for later}Rudolph the Reindeer Candy Bars: These decorated candy bars are like a craft, treat and wrapped present all in one. And since I’m all about getting the most out DIY, this craft is genius. {Pin it for later}Candy Cane Sleighs: These candy loaded candy cane sleighs will not only make great gifts for your kids’ friend, but will probably make you the most popular mom on the block {with the kids, at least, the parents may hate you when their kids are climbing up the drapes-ha!}. {Pin it for later}Hershey’s Kiss Candy Mice Ornament: First off, what kid doesn’t love a project that involves chocolate? Second, these Hershey’s Kiss candy mice ornaments are so cute and would make great gifts for their classmates without breaking the bank. {Pin it for later}How to Make a Candy Train: These little old school candy trains have been a tradition in our house for years. The Girl Who Thinks She’s A Bird has been making them and gifting them to friends for as long as I can remember. I bet it’s a tradition she passes on to her kids. {Pin it for later}

Paper Bag Reindeer Puppets: This little craft is totally awesome, because once you have helped them make their puppets they can create puppet shows for hours and you get much needed guilt-free time to get the holiday chores done. {Pin it for later}Waterless Snow Globes: These waterless snow globes are a perfect place for kids to use up their prized trinkets {you think are junk!}. They can immortalize all of their treasures in a snow globe, and you only have to pull it out once a year. Plus with no water, it’s mess free and you don’t have to worry about breakage! {Pin it for later}

Comments

So cute! My daughters and I put on a Christmas craft party every year and have made a few of these. I just pinned one of your ideas for this year’s party. Doing crafts with my girls is something I just love!